Tombs in Tea: Tea Garden Cemeteries, Sylhet, Bangladesh

ISBN-10
0907799752
ISBN-13
9780907799757
Category
Cemeteries
Pages
96
Language
English
Published
2001
Authors
Susan Maria Farrington, John Alfred Radford

Description

-- The book also contains sections on: the history of Sylhet; the tea estates; stonemasons who supplied memorials; the Surma Valley Light Horse [brigade]; and chaplains of the Kalighat Church.

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